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No. VI. contains four names, Ochitu, Ola, Temachi, and Maneta. The 
first is probably osto, a leaf, rather than ofzitu, renowned ; Ola is the 
striker, rather than the plank ; Temachi will be thematsu, the obstinate ; 
and Maneta, mendi, the mountain. 
No. VII. contains Machi and Manela, of which the former may be 
ametz, the hard oak, and the latter, emanille, the giver, or emenille, the 
augmentor. In No. VIII. occurs Mamaye, perhaps mamu, the phantom. 
No. X. has Olaochita of which the true form is doubtless Ahaluste which 
means ‘without shame.” M.O’Shea adds to the name of this ancient 
Bayard (annales des rois primitifs des dynasties Canariennes). Antara 
of No. XI. is andarrai, the eglantine, aud the Tahatu of No. XIII. may 
be dohatsu, happy, blessed. The Tano of XV. is likely tona, thini, a peak, 
mountain top, and Hamachi may be umatze, ripeness. In No. XVI, 
Otadi is the “‘ whin field,” and Amahetezi may be Ameztei, the forest of 
hard oaks. There can be little doubt that Tabera in No. XVII. is an old 
form of chaberama, the turtle. It is anowara in Iroquois, a language that 
transforms the French sound of “des pois” into ‘‘nekwa.” Hierro in 
Spanish means ‘“‘iron,” but No. XVIII. written long before the Spanish 
language came into existence, shows that the island bore the original name 
of Irio, Erio, Ario, most likely this was the Basque Arria, the stony or 
rocky. The Temauchi of No. XXIII. has not a Basque appearance, but 
seems to connect with the Erse tamhait, a habitation. In No. XXIV. 
Bama is probably the Etruscan pimo, one, or the first. There is reason to 
infer that, as Lama denotes a Roman Lamia, so Manota refers to an 
equally Roman Munatius (Plancus). Chichitachi of No. XXV. is either 
sistatze, the piercer, or chichitoza, the butterfly, and Zehako is the striker. 
In No. XXVIIL., Teino may be deinhu, skill in work, the Japanese teinei, 
neat, careful. Zumatze in No. XXVIII. is an osier bed or plot. No. 
XXX. gives Pimo, one, or the first, and Uka, which is likely euka, the 
holder or possessor. Itatsio seems to be a variant of Tacitio in No. 
XXXII., and to be a person in high authority above Lamia. It cannot 
denote the emperor Tacitus of the brief reign. But may not these 
divergent forms be attempts to express the name of Titus, who had a 
Lamia for a suffragan consul ? 
It is difficult from these brief inscriptions to sketch the history of the 
princes of Hierro. Tabera, the turtle, seems to have been a remote 
ancestor, whose most prominent descendants were Temane or Temano 
and the elder Maneta. Two of Temane’s sons were Telama, and the 
younger Maneta, who was the father of Ahaluste. The sons of the elder 
Maneta were Mamaye, Machi} and Ola, father of Temachi. As Machi was 
king of Tano, probably in Tenerife, and Otadi is called son of Tane, it is 
natural to think of Otadi as a descendant of Machi. The inscriptions 
furnish no aids for assigning places to Oceola, Ochita, and the rest. 
